well, at the community mental health agency I work at, our official Case Managers do a real variety of jobs, such as helping our clients with transportation, coordinating appointments with doctors and school people, facilitating communication between clients and whoever else is working with the client, and providing a connection with our agency should the client be seeing one of our agency psychiatrists for medications...basically doing a whole lot of legwork for the families we work with...a part of it all is attending to emotional needs, so lots of unofficial counseling/therapy.  The term case manager also applies within the job description of other positions here, such as mine, which is In-Home Clinician:  in addition to my formal play and family therapy with clients, I also do case management as needed; some families require this more than others.  I have found that with the Latino clients I have, the case mgmt. "part" of my job is often a bigger slice of the pie, as it includes translation services within the community.  My understanding of the other two terms, outreach worker and promotora, are that perhaps they are more of a focused job, such as specific health education (?)

hope this helps

Jane

-----Original Message-----
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Can someone tell me the specific difference between an outreach worker, case manager and promotore(a)?. I know at our clinic some of the outreach workers have undergone promotora training but not all of them.

 
Sherri Lukes
 
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Assistant Professor, Dental Hygiene
HCP-CASA, MC 6615
Southern Illinois University
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